MICHIGAN - Polls indicate GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are in a tight race to win the Michigan GOP's nomination in two days. In their closing speeches over the weekend, Romney criticized Santorum's Senate voting record while Santorum picked at Romney's record as Massachusetts governor. The Washington Times writes:
Romney tried to undermine Santorum’s profile as an abortion opponent by noting Santorum’s backing in 1996 of fellow Pennsylvanian Arlen Specter in the GOP presidential race. “He supported the pro-choice candidate,” Romney told more than 2,000 at a forum in Troy put on by a tea party umbrella group. Santorum spoke to the group, Americans for Prosperity, earlier Saturday.
Santorum, who has portrayed himself as a loyal conservative and is popular among evangelical conservatives, ridiculed Romney’s claims.
“It is absolutely laughable to have a liberal governor of Massachusetts suggest that I am not a conservative,” Santorum said to cheers to the same group. “He repeatedly gets up and says all these things that he didn’t do that he did do. Folks, this is an issue of trust.”
Neither Newt Gingrich nor Ron Paul are contenders in the Michigan GOP primary, although Paul is running ads against Santorum.
